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One Man. One camera.
In a time when we're spit-balled with CGI and aggressive jump cuts designed to make us feel excited at the most pointless events, Sea Wall is at the other end of the film making spectrum. One character. One camera. That never moves. No music. We're in brave territory here, or we're about to be bored rigid.
I watched this on a laptop with headphones in a packed coffee shop and for half an hour the entire world disappeared. My coffee went cold. I think, I think I'd been laughing out loud. I think I'd been sat in the middle of all these people going about their day with very wet eyes.
Sea Wall starts off with a man, Alex, rambling about a holiday he took with his wife, daughter and father-in law. Meandering and looping back on itself, the words touch on family, life and faith in God or something more than the little lives that we have. As Alex trundles off down the tangents and side alleys of his story the feeling begins to grow that all this is going somewhere. You don't know where it's going as you watch Alex, who seems so bright and alive and open, but for some reason you can't pin down a knot of anxiety starts to tighten in your stomach.
